Book Exhibition Salon| On Lightness—Calvino and Hejduk’s Medusa
Speakers
Architect Kung Shuzheng, Professor, Institute of Architecture, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
presiding
Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Design, Chak Chi Kong University, Curator of “The Friendship of Architecture and Books”
locations
Wen Shin Art Center (No. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)
fees
$300 (one drink included)
Event Content
Time follows in your footsteps not what you see with your eyes, but what is inside, that has been buried, that has been erased. - Calvino “The Invisible City”
Imagination and desire, hidden in ritual, history, life, seem intangible, but visible in text and architecture. From the novelist Calvino's The Invisible City to the architect Shaddock's The Mask of Medusa, how they stay light and hidden, don't look at Medusa's eyes, avoid being petrified by watching, allowing the details of reality to exist, leaving fragmentary memories in their hearts, wandering and intellect. Wander between serendipity and sacrifice, finding the other side through layers of mapped narrative.
On July 26, the Japanese Heart Art Foundation invited Professor Gong Shuzheng to talk about the story of Black Duck's architecture at the Cultural Center with the theme “Lightness — Calvino and the Medusa of Black Duck”, and with the curator of “The Friendship of Architecture and Books”, and the architectural creator of the younger generation Lin Nian Ying, Chen Yijun, and Yuanfu Chiu talk after teacher Gong Shuzheng's speech.
